Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
The Trundle Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Trundle sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Trundle perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Trundle tries to synergize with Skarner, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Skarner provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Trundle is played with Skarner on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Skarner.
Moreover, when Trundle plays with Skarner on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Trundle in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Trundle that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Skarner is a relatively poor teammate for Trundle. By playing on the same team as Trundle, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 51.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Trundle and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Trundle. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Skarner teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Trundle players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Trundle and Skarner together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Skarner teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Trundle to work well with Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Trundle and Skarner synergy build include Trinity Force, Blade of The Ruined King, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.0% win rate overall.
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